Offence:Pleaded guilty to a charge of sexual intercourse without consent.

Sentence: Jailed for a maximum four-and-a-half years,with a non-parole period of two-and-a-half years. He will be eligible for parole in May 2020.

Other: Mulholland watched and followed a young 19 year old woman into a laneway in Hamilton in what was described as a random and “predatory” attack. Mulholland was “seriously and significantly” bashed by a group of inmates who made clear to him why they were assaulting him. He has since been moved into protective custody.

Hamilton district man to spend eight months behind bars

A Hamilton district man who strongly encouraged a teenage girl to send four intimate images of herself has been jailed.

Mark Stephen McLellan, 48, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to procuring a child to make child pornography and possessing child pornography.

McLellan was sentenced to eight months jail and will be placed on the sex offenders register for 15 years.

Magistrate Cynthia Toose said McLellan engaged in sexualised conversations with the victim which Ms Toose understood to be a form of grooming.

She said victim impact statements from the mother of the victim and the victim demonstrated how the offending would have long and lasting impacts on both of them.

Ms Toose said it had been submitted by McLellan’s defence counsel that time in custody would impact on his poor health and the health of his wife.

She said specific deterrence was a significant factor in sentencing, particularly to any young people who were misguided and sent intimate images to one another.

She said McLellan behaved for his own sexual gratification and the victim was manipulated so he could meet his own needs.

Ms Toose said the court needed to send a message to young people and others that this type of conduct would not be tolerated.

The maximum penalty for each offence is two years’ imprisonment.

In a separate hearing a Hamilton man who slapped his partner’s face as hard as he could was placed on a community corrections order.

Ben Khawli, 31, of Norma Avenue, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to unlawful assault, breaching an intervention order and having a homemade firearm.

On Friday he was placed on a 12-month community corrections order, ordered to do 120 hours of community work and jailed 16 days, which he has already served.

Ms Toose said she hoped he would embrace the opportunity for rehabilitation.

The court previously heard that on the morning of February 27 Khawli and the victim argued over relationship issues, it became heated and he punched a hole in a door.​

On March 16 the couple had another confrontation about relationship issues and Khawli said he slapped the woman as hard as he could. Police arrested him and a search located one gram of cannabis and a home-made metal firearm.

Defence counsel Belinda Northey said the firearm was similar to an orange gun and was to be used to fire out fishing sinkers and hooks while fishing. She said it was not operational.

A FORMER Hunter Marist Brother who called a 12-year-old student ‘‘the anti-Christ’’ before raping him half a century ago is in custody after pleading guilty to sexually abusing 17 boys and teenagers, and being found guilty of offences against two others.

Trials against Francis William Cable, 82, known as Brother Romuald when he taught at Marist Brothers schools at Hamilton, Maitland and Pagewood in the 1960s, were expected to run for several months after he pleaded not guilty to nearly 60 indecent assault and buggery offences in the 1960s and 1970s.

But he entered guilty pleas to multiple offences in Sydney District Court on Thursday after a jury in the first trial found him guilty of 13 offences against two boys, including buggery, on Tuesday.

Men cried with relief and outrage after the guilty pleas were confirmed. One victim, who was called ‘‘the anti-Christ’’, beaten on the head and digitally and orally raped by Romuald at the age of 12, cried as he said: ‘‘I don’t trust any man.’’

‘‘He was violent. He used me for sex. He was a mongrel of a bloke and I was just a child.’’

Three of his victims who cried while recounting the terror they experienced at school because of Romuald said they had no time for anyone who expressed sympathy for him because of his age, or the likelihood that he would die in jail.

‘‘He sexually abused me more than 50 years ago and I’ve had to live with that for most of my life,’’ said one of his former students, 67.

‘‘He’s been able to live his life without anyone knowing what he did. He probably thought that at 82, ‘I’m fine. I’ll get away with this’, but that’s not right. Child sexual abuse has a devastating impact on your life. It doesn’t matter how old you are, or how old they are, the silence that allowed this to happen has to end.’’

Romuald sexually abused a number of children who had suffered deaths in their families, or where family members were known drinkers, or where the children had physical problems.

He sexually abused children behind his desk in classrooms at Maitland, Hamilton and Pagewood while other students were in the room. He gained access to boys and teenagers outside school by coaching sports, taking them on Duke of Edinburgh Award camps and activities, running army cadet groups, and organising father-and-son weekend camps where the fathers brought kegs of beer.

At one of the father-and-son weekends, Romuald indecently assaulted a 13-year-old boy while they were swimming in Myall Lakes.

An agreed statement of facts tendered to the court said the boy told his father on the trip home.

‘‘His father did not believe him and told him he was lying,’’ the facts said.

Romuald committed multiple offences at Newcastle, Merewether and Maitland baths, and Heffron Park baths in Sydney while swimming with boys and teenagers.

Other offences occurred at Bar Beach, also while swimming.

In 1972 Romuald took a form 2 Hamilton Marist Brothers class to Merewether Baths, where they used the change rooms.

‘‘The offender was walking around in the change rooms with an erection. He was encouraging the boys to remove their clothes, telling them to take their swimmers off,’’ the statement of facts said.

Romuald indecently assaulted boys at the Hamilton and Maitland schools while teaching them sex education, which he taught in one-on-one sessions. He also befriended women who were alone because their husbands had died, or left, or worked for long periods away from home, and indecently assaulted their sons during regular visits.

Romuald indecently assaulted one boy in his mother’s laundry, telling him it was ‘‘sex education’’.

One of his victims, 58, said his life had ‘‘gone completely pear-shaped’’ because of the abuse he experienced at Hamilton Marist Brothers.

‘‘I was going to be an engineer but after the abuse I just couldn’t stay at school. I got out,’’ he said.

‘‘I hate the Marist Brothers. I can’t understand how they did all that stuff. The Brothers at that school were friends of my parents. I look back and see what a mess my life has been and I realise, I was running away.’’

Francis Cable (Brother Romuald) will be sentenced at a later date.

‘He’s an old man, he can’t hurt me any more’

A MAN sobbed on Thursday when told he would not have to give evidence against Francis William Cable, the man he knew as Brother Romuald at Marist Brothers Hamilton.

‘‘I feel cheated,’’ he said, while apologising for not being able to control his sobs.

‘‘I’ve lost my chance to say: ‘You hurt me’. I’m really beaten up. I’ve got to get this bear off my back because it’s been 40 bloody years.’’

The man was 13 when Romuald repeatedly indecently assaulted him in class, and left him terrified of when the next incident would occur.

‘‘For all this time, I’ve pictured myself as three feet tall, and he’s six feet four, and I’m powerless. I need to look at his face and know he’s a bent-up old man and he can’t hurt me any more. I need to be able to tell him that: ‘You can’t hurt me any more’.’’

The man, who cannot be identified, said Romuald was a ‘‘big, evil, scary man who used to turn up out of nowhere’’ for many former students.

‘‘There are more victims … who wouldn’t make statements to police. I personally approached four. They said he had abused them but they just couldn’t make a statement. That’s the power this stuff has over you.

‘‘You cap it and seal it away and think you’re OK, and then it hits you.’’

The man said his family had not supported him. When he rang them in distress after the guilty pleas on Thursday, his parents tried to change the subject.

Another victim who was 13 when he was repeatedly assaulted by Romuald said he was staggered by the failings of the Catholic Church and the Marist Brothers to protect children at the Hamilton and Maitland schools.

Vic teacher on sex offenders register

October 9, 2014, 10:36 am

A Victorian primary school teacher who propositioned a 10-year-old student for sex has avoided jail but been ordered to complete 200 hours of community work.

Diane Marie Brimble, 47, of Hamilton, has been placed on a two-year community corrections order and will appear on the Sex Offenders Register for eight years after being convicted of committing an indecent act with a child under 16.

Hamilton teacher found guilty of indecent act with boy, aged 10

By ANDREW THOMSON

July 14, 2014, 12:23 p.m.

A HAMILTON teacher has been found guilty by a Warrnambool jury of committing an indecent act with a 10-year-old boy.

Mother-of-eight Diane Marie Brimble, 47, had pleaded not guilty in the Warrnambool County Court to six charges, including five counts of committing an indecent act with a child aged under 16 years and one count of using a telecommunications device to groom a child.

A Warrnambool jury returned verdicts just before noon on Thursday after deliberating for two days.

Brimble was found guilty of one charge and not guilty of five charges.

She was found guilty of hugging and kissing the boy and asking him to sleep with her to have sex.

Mamo, 68, pleaded guilty in the County Court on Monday to seven charges of unlawful and indecent assault of a child under the age of 16.

On Monday the victims, who were boys at the time the offences occurred, told the court of being taken into a dark basement at Hamilton’s Monivae College and being indecently assaulted by Mamo from 1976 to 1980.

Judge Leckie said he had memories of sentencing practices from when the offending occurred and since then sentencing practices had changed significantly.

He said in the 1980s the indecent assault of a boy under 16 by a person in a position of trust would be dealt with differently.

Mamo was aged between 31 and 35 when the incidents took place and was a brother of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Australia, which operated Monivae College. He undertook laundry duties, ground works, was bus driver and coached hockey at the college.

On Monday the court heard of one incident when Mamo had ordered a victim, who was 11 at the time, to the laundry room for punishment and was instructed to drop his shorts and underpants and to bend over an old tea chest in the middle of the room. As the boy did so Mamo produced a thick leather strap and hit him 10 to 12 times.

Prosecutor Justin Lewis said on another occasion Mamo was strapping the same victim over the tea chest when the boy turned to see Mamo had one of his hands down the front of his pants. Mamo saw the boy looking and yelled at him to face the front.

In victim impact statements read to the court, the men told of fear, humiliation and disbelief that someone wanted to do this to them. One said he had lost trust in all human beings.

Defence counsel Peta Murphy said Mamo offered his plea of guilty to the victims as an apology for the hurt they had experienced.

The plea hearing was adjourned until February 20 in the Country Court, Melbourne.

Abuser offers guilty plea as apology

VICTIMS of paedophile and former religious brother Edward Mamo wept in a Warrnambool court yesterday as they recalled the horror of his crimes.

The men, who were boys when the offences occurred, told of being taken into a dark basement at Monivae College in Hamilton and being indecently assaulted by Mamo, now 68, from 1976 to 1980.

Mamo, now of Sydney, pleaded guilty in the County Court to seven charges of unlawful and indecent assault of a child under the age of 16 on Monday. He sat emotionless throughout the plea hearing.

Mamo was aged between 31 and 35 when the incidents took place and was a brother of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Australia.

At the time, Mamo undertook laundry duties, ground works, was bus driver and coached hockey at the college.

The court heard of one incident when Mamo had ordered one victim, who was 11 at the time, to the laundry room for punishment and instructed him to drop his shorts and underpants and to bend over an old tea chest in the middle of the room. As the boy did so Mamo produced a thick leather strap and hit the boy 10 to 12 times.

Prosecutor Justin Lewis said on another occasion Mamo was strapping the same victim over the tea chest and the boy turned to see Mamo had one of his hands down the front of his pants. Mamo saw the boy looking and yelled at him to face the front.

In victim impact statements read to the court the men told of their state of fear, humiliation and disbelief that someone wanted to perform these acts with them.

One man said he had lost trust in all human beings and Mamo’s behaviour cost him his belief in the Catholic God.

Defence counsel Peta Murphy said Mamo offered his plea of guilty to the victims as an apology for the hurt they had experienced and the harm that had occurred.

Judge Julian Leckie said he expected to sentence Mamo later this week.

Pedophile dentist Ashleigh Edward Jarrold’s sentence nearly doubled

CONVICTED pedophile Ashleigh Edward Jarrold had his non-parole period almost doubled yesterday after the Court of Criminal Appeal found the former Hamilton dentist’s sentence was too lenient.

Jarrold was not before the court in Sydney when the decision was handed down.

He was sentenced last year to five years’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of three years after he pleaded guilty to eight charges relating to historical child sexual assaults and child pornography and grooming offences committed last year.

That sentence was increased yesterday to seven years and five months’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of 5? years.

He will now be eligible for parole in March 2015.

Jarrold was charged in October 2008 with indecently assaulting two boys in the 1970s.

He initially pleaded not guilty.

However, he changed those pleas on the eve of his trial after he was charged with the child pornography and grooming offences last September.

Jarrold saved online conversations he had from 2003 onwards where he gave detailed descriptions of sex acts he claimed to have carried out with boys involving torture and bodily waste, Newcastle District Court previously heard.

He told one man that he obtained sexual pleasure from children screaming or whimpering in pain and masturbated during live web-cam recordings with an English teenager.

During one online chat, Jarrold wrote: “Have to kill them so they wouldn’t [go to the police].”

He later wrote: “Don’t think I could actually kill anyone . . . but the rest would be fun.”

Jarrold also wrote about a teenager who had lunch at Jarrold’s home.

He said a group of men had sex with the teenager, who told police he was 17 at the time.

Paedophile dentist removed from registration list

Posted Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:40am AEDT

The Dental Board of New South Wales has removed the name of a Newcastle dentist from its list of registered practitioners, blaming a technical glitch for the convicted paedophile’s apparent re-registration.

Up until this week, Hamilton dentist Ashleigh Edward Jarrold was listed on the board’s website as being registered and fit to practice until the end of this year.

His registration was due to expire last month – three months after he was sentenced to a maximum five years jail for child sex offences.

After inquiries by the ABC, Jarrold’s name was deleted from the Dental Board’s website yesterday, with a spokeswoman saying a computer glitch is to blame for the apparent re-registration.

To pass registration dentists must provide character references and list serious criminal offences.

For them to be deregistered there must be disciplinary proceedings against them, but the Health Care Complaints Commission says there are no such proceedings against Jarrold.

The board is yet to say if it accepted Jarrold’s registration payment fee, or if the technical glitch affected the records of other dentists.

Hamilton dentist Ashleigh Jarrold in net sex sting

BY STEPHEN RYAN

30/09/2009 4:00:00 AM

HAMILTON dentist Ashleigh Edward Jarrold tried to organise a sexual liaison with a 15-year-old boy while awaiting trial for child sex offences committed in the 1970s, a statement tendered to Newcastle Local Court said.

Detectives posed as the 15-year-old boy to catch Jarrold.

Jarrold, 57, pleaded guilty yesterday to five charges relating to sexually explicit conversations he had online and grooming a boy for sexual activity.

The charges, plus five other offences that will be taken into account when he is sentenced, were adjourned to Newcastle District Court today where Jarrold is expected to plead guilty to the offences from the 1970s.

He was charged with those matters last October.

Jarrold was arrested again on September 17 after police conducted surveillance on his home and intercepted his internet service provider, a statement said.

He was refused bail.

Jarrold’s barrister, Peter Harper, did not object to the statement being tendered, but indicated that some of the details might be disputed when Jarrold was sentenced.

Surveillance material shows Jarrold masturbating on a number of occasions while he chatted online with the person he thought was a 15-year-old boy, the statement said.

Jarrold told the boy on September 3 that he could pick him up from school during lunch and they could have sex at a hotel.

He also sent the boy a photo of his partner naked and told the boy of sexual encounters he had had including one with another 15-year-old boy and a group of men.

Jarrold later told the boy that his partner did not want him to meet the boy because of his upcoming court case.

Five days later, Jarrold said they should meet after the court case.

In other online conversations saved on Jarrold’s computer between 2003 and 2008, he discussed child sexual abuse, rape, murder and defecation.

Jarrold sent photos of a male he claimed to be 16 to a person he chatted with online.

The photos were of the teenager performing various sex acts with men. In one photo, the teenager is over Jarrold’s knee.

In another online conversation, a man told Jarrold of sexual encounters he had with family members aged 11 and 14.